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Distance: 112.12 km Ride time: 5.22.54 Average: 20.83 km/h Max speed: 48.42 km/h Total: 31473 km I left Mancora feeling that I hadn’t seen everything there was to see or done everything there was to do in this beach town in northern Peru. Such is travelling sometimes. For now my mind was focused on reaching [ Read More ]

So far South America hasn’t been a beach holiday. In fact, what I remember the most from the last 11 months is fighting crazy head winds in Patagonia, climbing 4000 m passes, and camping at below -10°C on the altiplano. Now that I’m very close to equator one would expect things to turn more tropical [ Read More ]

Distance: 151.22 km Ride time: 6.43.49 Average: 22.46 km/h Max speed: 59.06 km/h Total: 31361 km Today is food day! Well, every day is food day at Cycling The Globe, but today I decided to take a photo of all the food I would eat during the day. As I had 150 km to cycle [ Read More ]

Distance: 41.20 km Ride time: 2.00.41 Average: 20.48 km/h Max speed: 33.67 km/h Total: 31209 km Compared to the dodgy towns I had been cycling through yesterday, Piura was completely different. Sometimes you just have this good and friendly feeling when you walk around a place – that was how I felt about Piura. I [ Read More ]

Distance: 186.14 km Ride time: 8.10.02 Average: 22.79 km/h Max speed: 37.64 km/h Total: 31168 km Up by 6 and on the bike by 7 – today I would try to make it the 180 km from Morrope to Piaru in one go. Yesterday I had been doing some shopping as I didn’t expect to [ Read More ]

Distance: 36.08 km Ride time: 1.50.46 Average: 19.54 km/h Max speed: 39.37 km/h Total: 30982 km There is 220 km from Chicayo to Piura. Normally that would translate into two comfortable 110 km days, but since I’m trying to avoid wild camping in these parts I will have to stop where the hotels are. That [ Read More ]

Distance: 105.84 km Ride time: 5.25.43 Average: 19.49 km/h Max speed: 39.37 km/h Total: 30946 km This part of the Panamerican highway is supposed to be safer than where I rode yesterday. I could then relax a bit more and didn’t have to look back over my shoulder the whole day. On the other hand [ Read More ]

Distance: 110.92 km Ride time: 5:10:24 Average: 21.44 km/h Max speed: 52.18 km/h Total: 30840 km I was somewhat nervous as I left Trujillo and continued cycling up the Panamerican highway. I would be passing the town of Paijan which has a very bad reputation in cycling circles. On the internet you will find several [ Read More ]

Distance: 71.92 km Ride time: 3:59:42 Average: 18.00 km/h Max speed: 46.07 km/h Total: 30729 km Trujillo has a bad reputation safety wise, but I felt comfortable enough as I cycled into this first major city in Northern Peru. The only thing was that it was easy to get lost: Normally every town is arranged [ Read More ]

Distance: 70.50 km Ride time: 3:48:34 Average: 18.50 km/h Max speed: 55.34 km/h Total: 30657 km The changing landscapes here on the Panamerican Highway continue to amaze me. At one point you are cycling through rice fields that would make you think you are in Asia. Then 20 kilometers further up the road you are [ Read More ]